Grayscale Assures Investors: Ethereum Classic Trust Funds Not at ‘Direct Risk’ In the wake of a 51 percent attack on ethereum classic (ETC), the manager of an investment vehicle that holds the cryptocurrency has been fielding inquiries from investors looking to understand if the underlying assets in the fund are …

The Case for a 2020 Bitcoin Bull Run Christopher Brookins is the founder of Pugilist Ventures, a quantitative crypto fund founded out of Carnegie Mellon. ———————————————————————————————— Since the end of 2018, price action has been demonstrably negative, which surprised many expecting the end of Q4 historical “pump” in prices. The …

South Korea’s Kakao Leads $15 Million Raise for Public Blockchain Startup Orbs Hybrid blockchain platform Orbs has raised over $15 million in cryptocurrency with help from South Korean app provider Kakao. A Kakao representative told CoinDesk that its investment arm had joined the funding effort because it “always seeks to …

Blockstack Won’t Need to Sell Bitcoin or Ether to Survive Crypto Winter While some blockchain projects quickly burned through the capital they raised during the heady days of 2017, others prepared for this market downturn by limiting access to their own funds. Such was the case at the New York-based …

Panic Mode? What a Wall Street Chart Tells Us About Bitcoin’s Price Investing in financial markets can be an emotional roller-coaster and the bitcoin market is no exception. When it comes to investment, human emotions tend to oscillate between two extremes – fear and greed – and the constant balancing …

Not Everyone Wants a Bitcoin ETF While many traders eagerly await a potential bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), some of the cryptocurrency’s most passionate advocates are lukewarm at best about the prospect of such an instrument. Twitter is flush with users like crypto entrepreneur Jonathan Hamel posting about how an ETF …

Fund Seeks $200 Million to Help Startups Survive a Crypto Winter A bear market might not seem like the ideal time to be launching a crypto investment vehicle. But that’s not how blockchain pioneer David Johnston sees it – quite the opposite. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Johnston has launched the …

Aion Token Project Estimates 18-Month Runway After Bitcoin and Ether Sales Cash is king – especially during a crypto winter. That’s the takeaway from a report out Wednesday from the Aion Foundation, which raised $23 million worth of bitcoin and ether through a token sale in October 2017. Compiled with …